Yea, verily, Little Hawk.

The preferences of any one group of people should not take any kind of legal precedence over the preferences of any other. That would be a very poor principle to set.

Sexual relations with another male does not appeal to me, and never has. Likewise, I've heard of steak and kidney pie as being a fairly staple British dish. I don't care to try it. I did try kidneys once, and I simply could not go them. It was not the idea, it was the smell and the flavor. And escargot. They may be absolutely delicious. People have told me that they are. But I find the idea of eating snails very off-putting. I don't eat uncooked meat partly because I'm not fond of the flavor and partly because of the possibility of E. coli contamination.

I play chess, but I don't play bridge. Someone tried to teach me once, but I found that it bores the crap out of me. I don't watch "reality" television shows, and I never got into "Seinfeld" or "Friends." I do watch "Live from Lincoln Center" a lot. And I watch "The Red Green Show," which appears on my local PBS station.

I like swimming and fencing, but I've never been enthusiastic about the usual run of sports, like football, basketball, baseball, and hockey.

However—I do not care to have my preferences and aversions take on the force of law. It would make for a very dull world.

And I fail to see why some other feel they have the right to legally enforce their preferences and aversions.

Don Firth